Word: proprietor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John McNulty did not create his own most famous character-Mat, the proprietor of a gin mill known as "Mat's." He simply wrote down what the man said. What resulted was that great Irish art form known as conversation, which, at its best, is always above and beyond the call of truth. In his later stories, McNulty often slipped into the habit of giving Mat his real name-Timothy Athena Costello, proprietor of Costello's Restaurant, Third Avenue at 44th...
store: a gin mill, a reverent term used only by its proprietor...
Prices & Revenues. Beset on all sides, the indispensable man everyone would like to dispense with naturally takes a somewhat sour view of his own profession. "This is a stinking business," says Mike Venanzio. proprietor of a small repair shop in Ambridge, Pa. "Every drugstore and five & ten, I don't care where, can sell radios and TVs at cut-rate prices. They don't have to worry about service. If something breaks down, they don't fix it. The people come to me. If I charge a decent price because I can do a good job, they...
Bloody Boogie. Early this month, fed by weeks of intertribal bitterness, open battle was joined between the Basutos and the Zulus of Johannesburg. Two Zulus were beaten to death and a Basuto leader was caught, castrated and clubbed to death. The proprietor of a lunchroom shut down his jukebox, on the theory that too many tunes like White Horse Boogie and Bennie's Second Street Special would overexcite his Zulu clients. The precaution did little good. On the following Saturday a swarming mass of Zulus marched against the Basutos, armed with clubs and spears...
Patriarch and proprietor of this treasury is Lowe Goldman, who emigrated from Russia about 63 years ago. "I've been in the furniture business about 30 years now," he notes. "I started up where that Chinese restaurant is now. I've had this house about 12 years. Before me the Swedish Society owned it; it must be almost eighty or ninety years...